✡️ Today's Jew of the Day is Leon L. Lewis!

Leon Lawrence Lewis was a lawyer, Nazi hunter, and activist for American Jews. Nazis called him "the most dangerous Jew in Los Angeles."

After graduating law school, Lewis accepted the position as the first national secretary of the Anti-Defmation League where he worked to prosecute hate crimes against Jews before enlisting in WW1. After the war, Lewis continued to fight antisemitism. Eventually he moved to Los Angeles and founded what would later be called the Jewish Federation Council of Greater Los Angeles, Community Relations Committee, where he launched a major spy ring to identify Nazi activities, starting in the late 1920s. He continued this work for the next twenty years. His work was directly responsible for thwarting Nazi plots and bringing Nazis to justice.

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